Prefaces to Shakespeare

by Tony Tanner

Book Overview

When Tony Tanner died in 1998, the world lost a critic who was as sensitive a reader of Jane Austen as he was of Thomas Pynchon, and who wrote with a warmth and clarity that belied his fluency in literary theory.

In the final ten years of his life Tanner tackled the largest project any critic in English can take on--writing a preface to each of Shakespeare's plays. This collection serves as a comprehensive introduction for the general reader,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674051378
• ISBN13: 9780674051379
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 848 Pages
• Weight: 2.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.7" x 9.5"